<div class="doc-item" id="doc-580"><h2 class="doc-item-name">alias<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">alias</span> alias namespace-sym)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Add an alias in the current namespace to another
  namespace. Arguments are two symbols: the alias to be used, and
  the symbolic name of the target namespace. Use :as in the ns macro in preference
  to calling this directly.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:2451
(defn alias
  [alias namespace-sym]
  (.addAlias *ns* alias (find-ns namespace-sym)))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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